In 2009, the Seville-born, Madrid-based painter Miki Leal traveled by motorbike to Martin Heidegger’s Hütte in Germany’s Black Forest; the journey occasioned a series of works in acrylic and watercolor on paperthe signature medium through which Leal has built his unique position among the artists of his generationdepicting the hut, its physical surroundings, and, more broadly, imagery evoking the philosopher’s inner world. Leal seems to have been struck by Heidegger’s need to create in isolationsomething that surely took the artist back to his own childhood, when he would